This volume contains two surveys of new results on linear and multilinear analysis. It offers an insightful presentation of the De Giorgi-Moser-Nash result and contains elegant applications of harmonic analysis to human vision.This book contains an expanded version of lectures delivered by the authors at the CRM in Spring of 2009. It contains four series of lectures. The first one is an application of harmonic analysis and the Heisenberg group to understand human vision. The second and third series of lectures cover some of the main topics on linear and multilinear harmonic analysis. The last one is a clear introduction to a deep result of De Giorgi, Moser and Nash on regularity of elliptic partial differential equations in divergence form. 1 Models of the Visual Cortex in Lie Groups.- 2 Multilinear Calderón-Zygmund Singular Integrals.- 3 Singular Integrals and Weights.- 4 De Giorgi-Nash-Moser Theory.